North Central Lesson Plans: Year in Review
December 17, 2010 • 1 comment
Lesson Plans: Year in Review The area’s teachers, staff, students and parents were featured prominently on these pages throughout the year. While “one” is an important number here in the newsroom as we close out our first year in print for Neighborhood News, the number 30 was much more on our minds in a pair of memorable stories. Our February issue reported how Northwest High Magnet School’s Bill Belew had erased his last
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North Central Neighborhoods: The Year in Review
December 17, 2010 • No comments
We planted the seed for Neighborhood News last year and by January had sprouted our first North Central issue, one of 11 neighborhood-specific papers that are delivered to a quarter million homes every month. So what better theme than to begin with the idea of blooming growth in this, or year-in-review recap? One of our favorite hidden gems is the Healing Garden on the grounds of the Servants of Mary campus (our April issue)
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North Central - Coming to the Table: Messages of Faith, Family, Community
November 19, 2010 • No comments
Neighborhood News asked area spiritual leaders to share their thoughts on the theme of ‘Coming to the Table’ this Thanksgiving season: "Thanksgiving is when we take time to give “thanks” for the Lord’s “giving” the blessings of the fruits of the earth, family, and, of course, His everlasting love for us." --Rev. Wendell Stavig, Saint John Lutheran Church "With all that is unsettled in our country at this time, it
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Of Tin Whistles and Accordions
November 19, 2010 • No comments
Sometimes, getting into print is as easy as answering the phone. That’s how things turned out when Northwest Magnet High School junior J. Scott Jackson picked up the phone when Curt Isaacson was busy teaching a class. Jackson is a third-year member of the school’s Studio Singers and Isaacson is the group’s director. “Mozart and show tunes are great, but we are kind of unique among area schools because we do a lot on folk
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North Central: Over the Fence
November 19, 2010 • No comments
The city’s new snow emergency plan goes into effect with the first (ugh!) fallen snow. Just use your house address to remember how it works. Parking east of 72nd Street will be limited to the side of the street with even-numbered address on even-numbered calendar days and the odd-numbered side of the street on odd calendar days … North High Magnet School was recently awarded $10,000 to create alternative cooking procedures for
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